Training School Girls to Be Successful Housewives
San Antonio schools push domestic science as preparation for independent budgeting, nutrition, and child care. Miss Emma Pirie leads programs across Main Avenue and Brackenridge High Schools guiding about a thousand students daily in cooking sewing textiles and household management including budgeting and marketing.
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Grandma
Baby
Mother
Main Avenue High School
San Antonio
Emma Pirie
Our First Underwear Sale Starts Tomorrow
Our First Underwear Sale begins tomorrow with bold price points in a multi range. Early shoppers can save on selections priced from 49c to 1.98, with multiple items offered at 89c to 98c and double value deals across options.
Confederate Bills A Curious Ruse In London Embassy Case
New York Tribune notes Confederate bills crop up after the Civil War. An embassy official faced a request to redeem ten $500 bills for English money, only to learn they bore no value beyond novelty. London police frequently handle petty swindles using small denomination Confederate notes. The piece also states U S mining is a massive industry employing over 1.5 million and yielding about 2 billion dollars annually.
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New York Tribune
Hneland
Police
London
United States
Dream of turning base metals into gold revived by Ramsay
The article describes Sir William Ramsay and colleagues Collie and Patterson reporting experiments that transmute lighter elements into heavier ones such as helium neon argon from hydrogen oxygen sulfur selenium. It notes that radio activity revealed atoms are divisible and that transmutation can occur in both directions, challenging prior beliefs.
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William Ramsay
Messrs. Collie
Patterson
Sir William Ramsay
Ramsay
Messrs
Collie
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